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PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS AUSTRALIA WIDE
Finding the Facts
Search and Rescue in Australia (circa 1924), and 100 years on. Otto Yuncken – A murder, a hero, a dynasty.
Photo: The rescue party riding out across a High Country plain with George in bandages and broken bones on the middle horse ‘At daybreak...
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The Grief / Loss Impact Register (GLIR) – Where do you as a Government and your Police service sit?
Image of a pioneer’s tombstone in the Australian out-back, Valentine Smith © 2022 The Missed Foundation [i] calculates that for every...
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Part Four: Missing Person Response – Gaps uncovered
The first police unit on scene took down basic initial details and commenced a land search of the navigable roads and tracks for some hours.
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Part Three: Missing Person Response - Gaps uncovered
PART THREE OF A FOUR PART SERIES Victimology and Witness handling INTRODUCTION: Criticisms, no more criticisms – with over fifty years in policing and investigations, the last ten years almost solely concentrating on missing persons, I have identified gaps in most cases. However, I am generally not overly critical, why? Because I understand reality and the limitations and pressures in which police work. I also understand that it is the front-line officer who is usually the t
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Gunfire – In ‘The High Country’
Murdered or Lost - clarifying the missing? (Three years down the track) There have always been ‘lone wolf’ stories of mostly men who...
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6 min read
‘The Lost Boy’ – Tragedy in the Outback…
Everything in life is a ‘Maybe, even where we think we have a considerable degree of control of direction and choice. Many things we do...
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3 min read
![MISSING[i]– 35 Years in the Australian bush.](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/93549e_e0185d4780c7424c89fdb4442341c1f2~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_241,h_272,fp_0.50_0.50,lg_1,q_35,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/93549e_e0185d4780c7424c89fdb4442341c1f2~mv2.png)
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MISSING[i]– 35 Years in the Australian bush.
(Adapted front cover image of Tom Patterson’s 2022 book of the incredible story of Mark May) If there ever was one book that could be...
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We might as well be on the moon
CREDIT: MATT PALMER - https://mattpalmer.co Our Trip to Craigs Hut. By Pastor Christopher and Yolanda Eckels[i] Edited by Valentine...
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11 min read
Not all who are missing are lost
Out of the Forest is a unique tale of survival. A young man is raised in grim circumstances, facing adversity in the most atrocious of ways.
Samantha Kiss
2 min read
Missing persons and investigative first response
A manual that we all need, it covers everything from first response to continuing intelligence capture/management.
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Footprints in the Wilderness
Why do any of us feel rejuvenated when we go into a forest, sit on a quiet ocean beach, or even visit an urban park?
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3 min read
“Cold Case Challenges” Missing in Action, Lost Boys in the Wilderness
The incident scene is born through a set of circumstances. It explodes into life and then immediately begins to die until there is virtuall
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7 min read
Losing Track
How many times do you think, hear or say, “I’ve lost track of where I am” or maybe it is more a case of “I’ve lost track of my thoughts”...
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9 min read
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